Mentoring for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Humans

One year to create a magical transformation in your personal and/or professional life

  • 12 Months of Transformation

  • One on One Mentoring

  • Retreat in Costa Rica

  • Daily Quantified Self

  • Weekly Future Self

  • Weekly Self Coaching

  • $12,000 Investment

Integrating Opposites to Create Magic

I’m a man and woman who believes in the integration of opposites.

In everything I do, I bring together things that aren’t supposed to work together. As a result, I create magic in business and in my personal life.

I’m a university drop out, I traveled over 40 countries and my home is in the jungle of Costa Rica. I’m an entrepreneur, a creator, and a mentor.

I’ve had the honor to speak at prestigious institutions like Harvard University, have a book featured in the Stanford Technology Venture Program, and in 2011, I received the award “UK Business Speaker of the Year runner up”.

Over the past 15 years, I have worked with close to 30,000 entrepreneurs, business owners, artists, managers, charity workers, investors, ex-prisoners and sex workers.

I spoke at 80 international conferences and published close to 100 articles. My first book became required reading at the world’s 6th best fashion school.

I am a black belt in judo, I studied Civil Engineering at University, I’m fluent in 3 languages, I had the lead role in a few plays, and I live with my 3 furry babies.

Working with me as a mentor for a year is an opportunity to be coached on your processes, guided into a major changes in your personal and/or professional life and receive continuous support when changes become difficult.

For this one year of personal and business development adventure, we will dive deep into who you are and how you create magic in this world.

Gifting yourself a year to experiment with new ways of being

At the age of 13, I read “The Gambler” by Dostoyevsky and it bothered me: it seemed unrealistic that a person who has no history of gambling / drugs would fall into a gambling addiction out of nowhere.

So I built myself a roulette system and multiple dice to mimic the odds, and I set up to prove to myself Dostoyevsky is wrong. By the time my mum called me for lunch, I was already in debt to my virtual bank and I had no headspace nor time for eating. As quickly as I could, I finished my food to rush back to my room and make up for my losses.

By dinner time, I was deeper into debts and I had no appetite: all that was on my mind is how the fuck do I make my money back and beat the game. When I realized it was already 2 am and my debt was ridiculously bigger than the money I had started with, I came to a few conclusions:

  1. Dostoyesvky was right and I was wrong

  2. I don’t know myself as well as I think I do

  3. The only way to know how I would react in a certain situation is to try it and observe reality

  4. Running experiments on myself is the best way to know myself

  5. Being wrong isn’t a problem, as long as I figure it out before it causes me problems

A lot of my personal and professional grow have come from taking myself on adventures into the unknown with a combination of scientific and artistic approach.

I don’t know the answer to your problems, and I can’t solve your problems for you, otherwise you’d become dependent on me

However, what I’m really good at helping people find solutions they couldn’t see before

I’m also amazing at guiding people to create experiments to grow in mastery and to learn about what you don’t know yet but need to in order to succeed

By working with me as a mentor, you will develop a process for finding solutions to any problem, obstacle or opportunity

Over the course of the year we’ll spend together, you will practice being coached by me in different ways, and you will practice being coached by yourself

As a result, by the end of our program, you won’t need to work with me anymore because you will have assimilated new ways of being that make you able to face unknown situations with ease

“Mercedes is a winning combination of brutal honesty, humour, constant curiosity and natural sensitivity.”

- Leah Cox, Life Artist and Guide

Mentoring Program

Getting Married for a Year

With everyone I mentor, we create a deeply intimate relationship. We create a bond of trust and care. We work together to make the changes you dream of a reality. To keep it that way, I work with maximum 3 clients per year.

You will speak with me pretty much every week for a year, and together we will create magic.

I love passionately to guide people on amazing adventures and spend our time creating through conversations.

I work only with people who inspire me and give me joy to spend time with.

I exclusively offer programs to people who are their own final decision makers: I do NOT work with employees

I work with clients who want to create something magical from their lives and work

Starting a one year program with me is like getting married to each other for a year

1 Year Program - $12,000

3.5 days of one on one mentoring retreat

3 x 1h per month of 1:1 mentoring

Weekly self coaching

Weekly future self

Daily quantified self

I want to thank you for meeting with me today. You have an incredible ability. I am still trying to process the different perspectives we developed. It was great to get an even better appreciation of your gift for this kind of work.

- Jack Saul, Trauma Therapist

The Art of Creating Powerful Agreements

Someone asked for my help to start a business, so I explained how my mentoring works

The person replied "I thought from social media that you're a good Samaritan. Helping people is something you should do from the heart, not for money. I thought you were more mature than that."

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm not an angel and I'm not mother Theresa

Helping people grow businesses is part of what I do for work

Sometimes I chose to help people without a financial exchange

Some people inspire me so much I get 1,000x the value of my work from seeing how I contribute to their creations

My love and desire to help in unconditional

My relationships and my commitment to help are very conditional

I believe that no human owes anything to another human until they make an agreement in which they bind each other to certain actions

I love without boundaries and I help within the sanctity of clear agreements

I chose to help people who help others

I help people who are ready to help themselves

I help people who are ready to go to hell and come back full of love

I help people who put a smile on my face

I help people who take powerful actions, go into deep reflection and create new actions

I help people who are grateful for my time, love and attention

Nobody pays me for my help: I help people because I love helping

Some people pay me because they want me to commit a year of dedicating my time, attention and love to help them grow

Some people become clients because they’ve seen the result of how my guidance help them create magic in life and business

Clients are people to whom I make a 12 months commitment to serve with my heart, mind and soul

I am an explorer, a creator and a guide

More than anything, I dance with life and I choose carefully the partners I want to dance with

To every client, I make 7 important and powerful commitments:

  1. I commit to being a person of Shibumi

  2. I commit to give you my full undivided attention when we interact

  3. I commit to serve you in all my actions and guide you to dig deeper

  4. I commit to love you and believe in you no matter what you say or do

  5. I commit to tell you my truth, speak unfiltered and tell you when I don’t believe you

  6. I commit to take you places you’ve never been before

  7. I commit that even when I fuck up, there will be deep insights & learning for you to grow from

What important and powerful commitments
do you want to make to yourself?

Business meets Spirituality

There is no right time for growth: the youngest client I served was 19 and the oldest was 83

I used to help people grow businesses regardless of anything. Then I had a life changing conversation with a client. I helped him grow from 1 to 7 offices but he seemed so unhappy. It turned out that making more money didn’t make him happier, and he wasn’t willing to spend time thinking about what makes him happy.

Now I focus my attention on how to integrate business strategies that help make more money with a lifestyle that makes us feel happy, healthy and fulfilled. There is no point making money if we have a depressing and destructive lifestyle. I help people make money from happiness and fulfillment.

Over the past 15 years, I’ve worked with owners of multi-million dollars companies that want to expand to new markets, tech start-up want to raise money from angels and VCs, artists who want to create a masterpiece, healers who want to overcome the Mother Theresa syndrome, retired professionals who want to create a magical retirement, ex-convicts, escorts, veterans, single mothers, and people from over 50 different nationalities.

All my clients have in common the desire to do something they’ve never done before, something completely new to them, something that makes them feel far out of their comfort zone.

What transformations do you dream of?

It was like a fairy tale, where the actors were the participants. The atmosphere you created touched even the most stiff people in the room.

- Alicja Moszynska

Removing the Mask
and Getting naked

Our relationship is based on a deep level of trust.

You will share with me some of your most intimate thoughts and fears.

One of my roles in our conversations is to have zero judgement.

I will commit to you, if you commit to yourself.

Answer the questions below, and I will invite you to a 3h mentoring session.

Do not rush answering these questions.

Take the time to think and meditate on your answers.

The more profound your answers are, the more profound my response will be.